(n.) An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The retailer has put in thousands more staff to improve service and has been testing new ideas in existing stores, such as artisan bakeries run by Euphorium, a specialist baker based in Islington in London; and upmarket Harris + Hoole coffee shops and Giraffe restaurants – all businesses that Tesco has invested in over the past two years.
(2) The viral particles measured 38 nm and 40 nm in diameter in all tissue sections from the impala and giraffe respectively.
(3) A corollary to this suggestion is the fact that, in the giraffe, as in most other Artiodactyls, the vertebral blood does not participate in the supply of cephalic structures because it is confined to the cervical region by the pressure barrier in the carotid-vertebral anastomosis.
(4) These short films aren't always musical; Laser Cats is a deliberately retro-amateurish sci-fi series about mutant cats who shoot lasers from their eyes, while a student film about giraffes claims that they are from outer space and will destroy mankind.
(5) We report the distribution of sympathetic nerves in the hindlimb arterial system of the giraffe based on the histochemical demonstration of monoamines by the sucrose-potassium phosphate-glyoxylic acid method.
(6) The instrument consists of three elements, namely: The cecal foramen holder, the giraffe shaped connector and the pointer needle.
(7) One stock from a waterbuck and 1 from a giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) failed to infect mice after incubation in human serum for 30 min at 37 degrees C when first tested, but after 5 or 6 further serial passages in mice and even with serum incubation time increased to 5 h, they retained infectivity.
(8) Armillifer armillatus, Linguatula serrata and L. nuttalli have each been isolated from nine different mammalian species in the Kruger National Park: lion, Panthera Leo; Leopard, P. pardus; buffalo, Syncerus caffer: blue wildebeest, Connechaetes taurinus; giraffe, Girraffa camelopardalis; kudu, Tragelophus strepsiceros; waterbuck, Kobus ellipsyprymnus; tsessebe, Damaliscus iunatus and impala, Aepyceros melampus.
(9) Striking differences in complexity have been found, both between chains attached to the same site in different species (cow and giraffe), between chains attached to different sites of the same enzyme in one-species (pig) and even between chains attached to the same site in a single species (chinchilla).
(10) • Africa Budget Safaris has an eight-day Northern Kenya camping safari, including a visit to Lake Turkana, costing £609pp 6 Climb Kili's little brother: Mount Meru, Tanzania Giraffe at the slopes of Mount Meru, Tanzania.
(11) A sample of fibers from deep (close to the bone) and superficial (away from the bone) regions of the plantaris (PLT) and medial (MG) and lateral (LG) gastrocnemius muscles of a neonatal, a 17-day-old and an adult giraffe were typed qualitatively as dark or light based on alkaline preincubation myosin ATPase staining properties and then sized.
(12) We report the distribution of nerves in vascular tissue from giraffe extremities and neck based on immunofluorescence against specific antisera to dopamine-beta-hydroxylase, neuropeptide Y, neurofilament, and synapsin I.
(13) Further filarioid worms recovered from the subcutaneous tissue and the Ligamentum nuchae of the same giraffe were recognized a new species and were described as Pseudofilaria giraffae.
(14) Viral particles, typical of the papovavirus family, were demonstrated by electronmicroscopy in small papillomas found on the feet of an impala (Aepyceros melampus) and on the face of a giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) in Kenya.
(15) I have a seven-year-old son and have loved reading him stories that use rhyme such as Giraffes Can't Dance, The Snail and The Whale, The Perfect Nest and Mum In A Million.
(16) The ventilation, tidal volume and anatomical dead-space were measured in a living giraffe and compared with similar measurements in a camel, red deer, llama and man.
(17) You could chose between making a giraffe, elephant, snake or teddy, and patterns for all were provided.
(18) That man’s manners; you should have seen him eating his dinner at the table, like a giraffe.’ We don’t mention the sexual thing – it’s not appropriate.” Activism and her legal challenge is taking up more and more of her time.
(19) If he wants a seven-foot picture of a woman feeding a giraffe in the buff, he's probably going to get one.
(20) The histomorphology of formalin-fixed micro and macrosarcosporidian cysts of Grant's, Thomson's gazelle, impala, wildebeest, Bubal hartebeest, Cape eland, red duiker, Kirk's dik-dik, defassa waterbuck, Bohor reedbuck, African buffalo, giraffe, warthog, and giant forest hog is described.
Unicorn
Definition:
(n.) A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.
(n.) A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.
(n.) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.
(n.) The larva of a unicorn moth.
(n.) The kamichi; -- called also unicorn bird.
(n.) A howitzer.
Example Sentences:
(1) And none of them are making money, they are all buying revenue with huge war chests.” Patrick reckoned the 2.0 tech bubble will come to be defined by the unicorn.
(2) Bob Cannell, member of Suma Wholefoods workers co-operative "Suma had its best ever business results in 2013 and there have been similar results for other worker co-ops such as Unicorn Grocery in Manchester.
(3) Unicorn uterus, Fallopian tube and finbriae were observed, and a thumb-sized gonad with hemorrhage and fissure was also seen in the upper part of the scrotum.
(4) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(5) Ars Technica, which first reported Ramos’s comments , quotes iPhone forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski as saying that the DA is warning that a “magical unicorn might exist on this phone”.
(6) And the export boom, the historic surge in business investment and all those other unicorns promised by the Office for Budget Responsibility are still stubbornly elusive.
(7) So – paywalls are not a mirage; nor are they a unicorn.
(8) I first discovered it after misgoogling Lady Gaga and finding a rather spectacular oil portrait of the singer eating a bloodied unicorn in the savannah.
(9) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
(10) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
(11) A few minutes' walk from Unicorn Gate is the historic dockyard , resting place of HMS Victory, the Mary Rose, HMS Warrior , the world's first iron-hulled, steam-powered warship.
(12) His recent discoveries include The Fabulus Of Unicorns , a troop of apparently polyamorous performers in horned headdresses, who are also one of the acts appearing at Guilty Pleasures’ newest venture, The Mighty Hoop-La , a festivalesque weekender that’s bringing some dazzle and dancing to Bognor Regis at the end of February.
(13) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
(14) Some internet archaeology had unearthed a few yellowing tweets from 2012 that showed him poking fun at stereotypical Jewish financial acumen (in his defence, his mother has Jewish parentage), at white women’s slight bottoms (“A hot white woman with ass is like a unicorn.
(15) As startup founders and their investors hope to turn their paper unicorn fortunes into cold hard cash, some of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors are warning a reckoning is coming.
(16) From the hands thrown to cheeks at Rupert Murdoch's announcement that he's looking to put paywalls up around his newspaper properties online, you might think that they're the unicorns of the online world, spoken of but never glimpsed.
(17) The quicker we get this out of the way and get back to dreaming about sipping Japanese whiskey on Jamaican beaches while watching unicorns wash themselves in the waves and hippopotamuses perform tricks involving hoops of fire the better, eh?
(18) One big problem for the unicorns is that there are simply too many of them.
(19) It’s not just Square – a lot of these unicorn funding rounds have been massively overpaid.
(20) I’m delighted to continue to work with the Unicorn team in the next thrilling stage of the theatre’s evolution.” Updated at 12.02pm BST 11.31am BST Two well-loved puppet theatres have lost their funding.